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Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Welcome to the Greenhouse: Why you should stop letting corporations blame you for climate change

Fiona Broadie September 13, 2021
Anyone can green-shame, but it is toxic when performed by the companies that contribute heavily to the problem.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Amtrak expansions provide new opportunity to boost economy, eco-friendly travel

Editors April 4, 2021
Amtrak’s plan and new funds from Biden will benefit the entire country, especially college students.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The onus of recycling should not fall on the consumer, but rather governments, corporations

Editors February 25, 2021
The individual can and should be accountable for their own waste whenever possible — taking shorter showers, reducing consumption, learning more about recycling, etc. But the brunt of the work has to be done by the government and by large corporations because they’re the ones who have the power to actualize real, immediate and impactful change.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Students hold a responsibility to be sustainable, but so does the University

Editors February 11, 2021
Yes, the new waste-disposal initiative is a positive, but we should also make sure it's used properly and followed by further substantial change.
Max Ferrandino

Politics Philosophized: Why corporate ethics is a sham

Max Ferrandino December 9, 2020
It is time we step up, make a change and demand our school divest from companies that destroy the environment.
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam spoke at a virtual panel hosted by Boston University’s Alumni and Friends on Tuesday about the impacts of climate change. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

SPH, Pardee deans hold ‘fireside chat’ on climate change

Anuj Sawhney November 16, 2020
This year is projected to be the warmest or second-warmest year on record. Climate change is expected to affect all areas of the globe, and in some manners, it already has.
Boston’s first income-tiered electric vehicle car share program will launch in Roxbury soon led by an E4TheFuture initiative. COURTESY OF MIKESPHOTOS VIA PIXABAY

Electric car-share program to launch in Roxbury

Allison Pirog September 29, 2020
The program is expected to launch before the end of the year, said Susan Buchan, director of energy projects at E4TheFuture. The grant covers four cars, and E4TheFuture hopes to add three or four more.
Kaio Thompson speaks at “Is it Bougie to be Green?” on Thursday. The panel addressed how socioeconomics, faith and environmentalism intersect. PHOTO BY JOHN LITTLE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘Is It Bougie To Be Green?’ connects climate change to faith, marginalized groups

Julia Maruca April 24, 2018

Conversations about environmentalism, climate change and conservation swirled around during Earth Week last week, and some are calling on activists and environmentalists to pay more attention to groups...

Hubway bikes, pictured above, are expanding and changing names to Blue Bikes after a new partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. PHOTO BY BRICEN STANDISH/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Hubway to become Blue Bikes, expand to 3,000 bikes in 2019

Hannah Schoenbaum March 11, 2018
Boston’s public bike-share service, Hubway, announced a new partnership Wednesday with Blue Cross Blue Shield, a health insurance company, that will expand and rebrand their bike-share service to a new name, Blue Bikes.

Marijuana cultivation needs energy regulations, letter states

Jordan Kimmel February 14, 2018

A letter written Friday by The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs proposed that the Cannabis Control Commission should enact certain environmental regulations on marijuana establishments...

LETTER: Plugging ourselves into the future

Daily Free Press Admin April 29, 2013

“Your car did not pass emissions testing” is something that I hear much too often when I bring my Subaru Outback to my local auto mechanic. My car did not pass emissions testing? Surely they must be...

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